A/n: This idea comes from Emerald has been Cumberbatched! (I love all the ideas btw, so I plan on writing all three!)

'So, what now?' Hiccup asked. Both he and Toothless were enjoying one of their rare days of, in the typical fashion. They'd spent the entire say perfecting some of their more dangerous stunts, resulting in more than a few soakings. Now, they were relaxing - and drying off - on one of the small islands they'd found before they became alpha and chief respectively.

'More flying!' Toothless decided, jumping around in anticipation of being back in the sky again.

'But we just landed!' Hiccup complained, flopping back against the grass. Toothless flopped onto him in protest, squashing his rider.

'Fine, Mr Bossy, we'll go, just let me -' Hiccup was interrupted by another dragon's call. Three dragons, the type of which Hiccup had never seen before, landed in front of them. Toothless got off Hiccup and growled.

'It's okay bud,' Hiccup soothed. 'What do you want?' he asked, louder this time so that his voice carried over to the dragons.

'So you're the dragon whisperer.' one, a large grey and blue dragon noted. 'I thought you'd be... bigger.'

'Sorry to disappoint,' Hiccup joked. The three dragons didn't react to his humour. 'Tough crowd,' he whispered to Toothless.

'And this is your dragon?' the second dragon, smaller than the first but more aggressive looking, checked. He looked Toothless up and down disdainfully. 'He isn't as good as I thought he'd be. Certainly not good enough for someone of your greatness.'

'I'm plenty good enough!' Toothless growled, held back barely by Hiccup's steadying hand.

'Rise above it...' he said gently, looking at the dragons with a controlled gaze. 'And I suppose you think you're better?'

'Naturally.' the third confirmed. He was the largest of the group, but had the smallest wings, wings which were a light red despite his otherwise turquoise colouring. 'And we'll prove it.'

The largest dragon crouched down, glaring at Toothless, who growled in response, equally prepared to fight. 'Don't!' Hiccup yelled, but neither dragon listened. Hiccup leapt between the two, hands stretched out to stop them. Toothless paused instantly when he noticed that his partner was in the firing line, but the other dragon didn't notice Hiccup. He sprang at him, talons out and ready to strike.

He was surprised, then, when he was stopped mid-jump by something in his way. He looked down to see Hiccup squashed beneath him, and stood up.

'Shame he got in the way.' the first to speak said uncaringly. 'We'll be on our way now.'

Toothless growled. He wanted to follow immediately, but needed to check if Hiccup was okay. He spared a quick glance at the Viking, slumped on the floor and unconscious. He'll be okay, he decided quickly, seeing no blood and noticing the rise and fall of his chest from breathing. For now, at least.

Toothless's eyes narrowed as he looked away from his rider and over at the dragons that had hurt him.

Hiccup opened his eyes slowly, squinting at the harshness of the sunlight. He was mildly aware of a presence by his side, someone hovering over him nervously, but his head hurt too much for him to want to look over there. "What..." he mumbled weakly.

'Hiccup!' Toothless suddenly came into view, concern visible on his face. 'Are you okay?'

"What... What?" Hiccup asked, not quite feeling up to Dragonese.

'That idiot dragon jumped on you. He must've landed on your head ad knocked you out. I don't think he got you with those claws though... Did he?"

Hiccup patted himself down, finding no signs of blood. 'I don't think so.' he notified the worried dragon.

'Great!' Toothless's mood switched immediately to that of an excited puppy, 'Then lets go back!'

'Okay, but slowly,' Hiccup agreed. 'I'm a bit dizzy now...'

Toothless growled a bit at the thought of his friend hurting, then grinned evilly at the memory of what he did to the ones who did it.

'Toothless,' Hiccup said warningly, dragging out the dragon's name, 'What did you do?'

'Excuse me,' Toothless said slowly, coming up behind the dragons. 'I do believe you forgot to apologise.'

'What for? Showing you up?' the taller dragon jeered, baring his yellowing teeth. 'Hurting your precious rider?'

'He was a bit scrawny, wasn't he? Useless as you!' another chimed in, eyes flashing through various colours as he spoke.

'Hiccup is not useless!' Toothless growled, crouching down and preparing to spring.

'And you! Stooping to such lows to befriend a human!' the same dragon continued as if Toothless didn't speak.

'Funny.' Toothless commented with a smirk, 'It sounded like you wanted to do just that a few minutes ago. How interesting.'

'Shut up!' the turquoise dragon snapped. He started to circle Toothless, and noticed the bright red of his prosthetic tailfin. 'Oh, you really are useless.' he sneered, 'Don't you know that a downed dragon's a dead one?'

At that, Toothless snapped. He lunged for the trio, holding all three of them down despite his smaller size. He glowed blue as he felt his alpha powers charging, preparing a shot that could easily kill all three of the dragons.

'Leave.' he ordered, speaking clearly around the growing ball of plasma, 'Or you'll be leaving permanently.'

The dragons didn't need to be told twice. They all jumped up, flying off hurriedly without another word.

'Good riddance.' Toothless muttered. 'Hiccup!' he shouted, remembering the injured Viking that he'd left behind. He hurried over to him and waited nervously for him to wake.

'What makes you think I did something?' Toothless asked innocently, staring sweetly at Hiccup.

'That expression, for starters,' Hiccup explained. 'Please tell me you didn't...'

'No,' Toothless assured. 'Just showed them how useless I was. They won't be coming back in a hurry.'

Hiccup sighed, wanting to tell Toothless off but honestly quite happy with what he'd done. 'Thanks,' he said eventually, getting a slight nod in return.